spring
2007- summer 2008: notes from the studio:
SPRING
2007
March
2007; worked with
year 6 students in Desmond Anderson School in Crawley (ICE
WORLDS) and Wallands School in Lewes (FREEZING FRIEZE).See
images below. It is good to see my journey shared and developed.
 
Freezing frieze- Wallands School
  Ice
Worlds- Desmond Anderson School
June 2007; I am arriving at
a clearer understanding of why I desired to go to Antarctica
rather than to any other destination. I think it
was a desire to experience spaciousness and a longing to
embrace it some how in my own living.
SUMMER
2007 an
'end of summer' raggedness in the garden.
Highlights of the summer period were - ANOTHER PLACE- Anthony
Gormley's installation near Crosby.
James Turrell's DEER SHELTER at The Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
walking the Lindifarne causeway Swifts
screaming over Wantage
AUTUMN 2007
A day with Cathy
Stevens and Udo Dzierzanowski in the recording of their
new CD, SASSOKA.
SASSOKA -
Europa String Choir. Cathy Stevens
and Udo Dzierzanowski.Recording in progress from September
2007.
7. FREE IMPROVISATION ANTARCKTIS
1
9.FREE IMPROVISATION ANTARCKTIS
11
8. BROTHERSWATER
Tracks 7 & 9 inspired
by my Antarctica work and cover art taken from images made
during rehersing and recording of
track 8: Brotherswater
October
2007
The first dusting of snow on the Applecross hills.
NW Highlands of Scotland.
WINTER
2007-8
Painting in the rain on The Needles, Isle of Wight in November
January 2008:
St John's Bournemouth. Ice Day.
SPRING
2008
Winter flowering cherry scattering
its petal flakes over the garden.
Participating in SAFEHOUSE as a maker
of sounds rather than as a maker of marks.Involvement with
musicians and with improvisation continues: see www.myspace.com/safehousepoole
*IMPROVISING
ANTARCTICA: As a way of continuing to
explore Antarctica way back in October 2005 I organised an
event at The Study Gallery of Modern Art in Poole, Dorset
during which a group of musicians* responded to a sequence
of selected Antarctica images. I worked on large strips of
canvas in response to the sounds they made and have developed
some of these pieces further.This event was the beginning
of a way of working with another discipline which is immensely
energising.
See below:
The CD is available. Contact
me.
*Cathy Stevens: Violectra, Udo Dzierzanowski: Guitar, Karen
Wimhurst: Clarinet and Bass Clarinet, Steve Harris: Drums
and Percussion.
| 
view of studio work
in progress |
Turquoise berg.oil
on paper
The rapid gesture of monoprinting
makes a satisfactory method of trying out form and
colour relationship of iceberg to ocean. |
Orange Surprise
acrylic and collage on MDF. 61x 30cm
|
'The impulse
to paint comes neither from observation nor from the
soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter
between painter and model- even if the model is a
mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles'.
John Berger The
Shape of a Pocket |
Glow Berg Glow
acrylic on board
featuring in Bournemouth
University Art Loan Collection 2006-2007
click image to enlarge
|
'The modern illusion
concerning painting...is that the artist is a creator.
Rather he is a receiver. What seems like creation
is the act of giving form to what he has received'.
John Berger The Shape
of a Pocket
Perhaps the worst thing that could happen to my creativity
is that the blue-eyed, somewhat serious little boy
that is looking at the world in wonder would die.
I wish him a long life.
Lasse Kempas (contemporary Finnish
artist) |
more to follow...
Frances
works as an artist and lecturer. Contact her if you would
like her to speak about a particular aspect of her work.
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